Like Fytton, I have edited and been on the editorial board of several journals during my career and I have never experienced this sort of pressure. If I had, the pressurisers (is that a word?) would have got a very dusty answer as anyone who knows me would expect!
Graham Cornish www.copyrightcircle.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fytton Rowland" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Query about journal (not author) self-citation rates > As an author, I have published in quite a variety of journals in my time. > Earlier in my career, I was an editorial staff member at a learned-society > publisher. In neither case have I ever been aware of any pressure on authors > to cite references in the same journal. As a referee, I have never suggested > adding extra references for this reason, though I have for other reasons. > > This is all anecdotal, but I feel that this may be a non-problem. I might > be over-optimistic - maybe I have only ever had connections with the more > scrupulous end of the journals market. > > Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK. >
